Diana West

Diana West

Diana West writes a weekly column that appears in about 120 newspapers, including the Washington Examiner on Sundays. Her journalism and essays have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New Criterion, The Public interest, The Weekly Standard, In Character, and The Washington Post Magazine. As a CNN contributor, she made numerous appearances on the Lou Dobbs shows. West's first book, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St Martin's Press) came out in 2007, and she is currently at work on her second book for St Martin's, The Hollow Center. She blogs at dianawest.net.
Diana West

Victory for ‘Muslim Outreach’? Retired General Barred from Speaking at West Point

Eight years and three months ago, I wrote a column inspired by the furor over statements by General William Boykin attesting to the religious dimension of the so-called war on terror. The thought that there might be a religious dimension to Islamic terrorism is, absurdly and disastrously, the Big No-No-No of our [...]
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Operation Enduring and Unexamined Dementia, Cont’d

US Army and Afghan Army play volleyball in southwestern Kandahar in 2011. On Sunday, a similar match in Zabul province turned deadly when an Afghan Army member shot and killed one American, wounding three. — It would be most helpful for at least one of the GOP candidates to think long and [...]
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COIN Claims Another Two American Casualties in Afghanistan

Military censorship only goes so far. Now we know, contrary to official reports, at least two US Marines were hit by the bomb driven into the  Kajaki Sofla bazaar by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle on January 18, 2012. Corporal Phillip McGeath, 25, was killed; Corporal Christopher Bordoni, [...]
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Should Christians Ally Themselves with Muslim Pro-Life Advocates at the U.N.?

When anti-abortion advocate Austin Ruse explained to his audience that because his sturdiest allies at the United Nations were Muslims countries, his international anti-abortion coalition could not also be an international religious freedom coalition, my dhimmitude-meter kicked on — dhimmitude in this case meaning [...]
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Killing of French Soldiers Continues a Tragic Trend in Afghanistan

Another attack by an Afghan service member has killed four French troops and wounded 16. Reuters photo This brings my admittedly informal tally of the grim toll to 52 Western personnel killed by Afghan security forces in the past 26 months since the November 2009 attack by an Afghan policeman that killed five British troops inside [...]
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Haditha: Where Are They (the Accusers) Now?

Eight charged; seven cleared; one, please, let’s hope, to go. Finally, the last “Haditha” trial is in progress, and, thanks to Nat Helms at Defend Our Marines, everything you need or want to know about the proceedings, the witnesses, the facts about the case of SSGT Frank D. Wuterich, the [...]
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Uncle Sam Plays Three-Card-Mohammed and Guess Who Wins?

The Secretary of State wears clothes, all right, but is she really ready to deal? — The Wall Street Journal reports: JANI KHEL, Afghanistan—In the American war against the Taliban, on whose side are the Afghan police? For many U.S. soldiers serving in the insurgent heartland, the answer is: both. “They smile to our [...]
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Mumbai Strategy Revealed By Lashkar-e-Taiba Terrorist David Headley

Somehow, the face of American-born Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Daood Sayed Gilani, aka David Coleman Headley, comes as news to me. Don’t know how I missed it, but it seems that news stories detailing his poisonous international career as a star facilitator of jihad in [...]
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The New York Times Notices Afghan Army Murder Spree

The New York Times sees – but knows not what it sees. KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American military personnel while they were playing volleyball at a camp in southern Afghanistan, killing one and wounding three others before being fatally shot, the Afghan police said [...]
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Tony Blankley (1949-2012), RIP

I am deeply saddened and shocked to learn that Tony Blankley has died. Tony, by virture of his quite remarkable career and background spanning Hollywood and Washington, California and the East Coast, the US and Great Britain, was himself a wealth of experience and treasured knowledge, very [...]
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